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So, yesterday I was in the process of moving to a new house, when during a break in packing I decided to try the bottom-up-bottom-up challenge. Coincidentally, I got it on my first try! This was on my arcade machine, and I'm kinda disappointed I don't have a video of it, since it went surprisingly smoothly (I finished it with 4700 points total and with 200 on the bonus timer still). This was my first time achieving this on an arcade machine, so now I've finally done it on both platforms.

This gave me an idea to post a list of some of the extra little miscellaneous challenges people have come up with in the past. We can keep this up to date with maybe a list of who has achieved each of them, and I thought that would be cool.

Most Consecutive Oil Can Jumps on a Conveyor Stage (without dying)*Allen Staal (6)

DK 2x speed version (stage reached)*Ross Benziger 5-1

I know I posted a list like this at TG bitd, so if you see I forgot some, or have more of your own to add, feel free to suggest them here. Like I said, in time, we can eventually start parsing out who has completed which challenges.

*EDIT* Below are some of the challenges and scores listed over at CAGDC from the years past (here: http://www.classicarcadegaming.com/forums/index.php?topic=4157.0). Many of the scores are quite out of date, but I wanted to start compiling them here for the overhaul coming up! I will edit them more to fit my purposes soon.

Highest score on a (on the first platform of any level, you ONLY move to the right, on the second platform of any level, you ONLY move to the left, on the third, you ONLY move to the right, 4rd = only to the left, 5th = only to the right, 6h = only to the left (climbing up or down is okay), and on the elevator, you move ONLY to the right until you reach the last spring platform, and on that last platform, you can ONLY move to the left (I don't know if it's possible to clear a spring levels on Stage 4+ by moving ONLY to the left, but anyway! lol):1) Dean: 49,700

The "touching EVERY invisible walls at the EDGE of EVERY platform (There's 12 on barrel boards (including the invisible wall near DK and the one at the left of the barrel oil), there's 10 on rivets screen (and the two at the top are the hardest ones, 'cause it's easy to die while trying to touch these invisible walls!), there's 8 on conveyer, and there's 8 on elevator (I count the one that you can do when you are on the first moving platform by jumping to the left, but I DON'T count the invisible wall near Donkey Kong and where the spring comes from (it looks to hardcore, and maybe not really possible on Stage 4+ spring levels).1) Dean: 4-1

Farthest on a "perfect low score" (800 points per stage):

« Last Edit: November 18, 2016, 02:16:58 AM by marinomitch13 »

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“Thou hast made us for Thyself, and our heart is restless until it finds its rest in Thee.” -Augustine, Confessions.

One challenge a friend of mine came up with was to get 0 points on level 1-1. I ended up pulling off and going to the rivet stage clearing all the rivets without using hammers or getting prizes leaving me with the lowest possible level 1 score of 800 points.

I'll edit that one in. Eventually, for the challenges that people can simply get with enough practice, it would be cool to rank them still by either time/score/#of hammers used/etc. So, for this one, it would have to be by the time that you reached the top ladder or something (if people provide that info).

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“Thou hast made us for Thyself, and our heart is restless until it finds its rest in Thee.” -Augustine, Confessions.

59 wall jumps new world record on mame55 wall jumps on a cab New World Recordlongest convener ride in dk history New World RecordWorld Record for standing behind oil can until end of levA Reverse finish on Rivet board.Standing on Bottom of the convener board with no hands until finish.

I'm the creator of the wild barrel hack. To avoid legal issues with distributing the actual hacked rom file and linking it here I've created a sort of ips patch for the wild barrel hack. Basically, since the rom is a zip with a bunch of separate binary files I had to make a separate ips patch for each binary file that I changed. In total there are 3 ips patches which I put in a zip file, each IPS patch is named according to the binary file that it should be applied to.

So, here is what you need to do to get the wild barrel hack rom from this IPS patch:1. Unzip an original dkong rom2. Apply each ips patch in my zip file to the corresponding file of the unzipped rom (Just google IPS patcher for a program that does this)3. Zip all the files back up4. Run mame on this rom (I do this by keeping the hacked rom in a separate directory from the original and when I want to play it I switch the ROMs directory in mame)

Unfortunately patching all the ips patches is a bit of a hassle (and it's also a hassle to make all the ips patches) so I could write a batch script or something to automate this if people have trouble.